Depending on your location relative to your water utility, it might take several seconds for the pressure wave from turning on your faucet to propagate backwards to them at its measly 1.5km/s. With our new ultra-low-latency smart faucet technology, that delay is reduced to tens of milliseconds! It could be faster, but we have to route all traffic through our cloud servers for analytics purposes.

Consuming only the power usage of a small country to run a thriving Minecraft SMP of AIs running around randomly and accomplishing nothing!

Somehow, “supercomputer learns to do a task in 9 days that an average child could do in a couple hours” doesn’t impress me all that much.

Also, expert human players take 20-30 minutes to find diamonds??? Divide those numbers by 5 and it might be realistic; top players can speedrun the whole game in less than that fairly consistently.

Yes. Yes, they are.

I imagine they’re just using some generic web scraper for everything, and not taking any time at all to see if the sites they’re scraping have an easier way to access the data.

Seems like a massive overestimate; my quick calculation got a number an order of magnitude lower, and that’s assuming 60% of the world’s population fully charges a smartphone every two days.

It shows that it’s possible to send entangled photons over existing fiber infrastructure without building something totally new, which as I understand it has applications in cryptography, secure communications, and quantum computing.

Yeah it’s absolutely an awesome accomplishment, it just bugs me whenever articles spread straight up false information.

TLDR: Researchers were able to send and receive entangled photons over a fiber optic cable that was simultaneously carrying a classical (non-quantum) signal typical of high speed telecommunications. They managed to accomplish this without the classical signal significantly interfering with the quantum measurements.

This was all done in a laboratory using a combination of standard telecommunications equipment for the classical signal and specialized equipment for the quantum signal. It was NOT done on a fiber carrying real internet traffic as the article would suggest.

I mean, they’re not wrong, but it does hurt a bit.

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Huh that’s really interesting, you’re right, and I learned a lot of new stuff about networking that I didn’t know before.

If you’re not on the same local network as the server and it’s not configured to be accessible from the general internet, you need some sort of proxy to access it.

Yeah this seems fine; if they’re proxying the stream through their server it’s using their bandwidth which costs them money. It doesn’t make sense for them to not charge for it.

That sucks, it’s always hit or miss with weather. I was obsessively watching the forecasts and ended up driving 3 hours away where clearer skies were predicted.

Looks great! I’m still out taking pics; I’ll have to post some of my own after I get some sleep.

I can back that up; the drives I ordered were packaged in an antistatic bag, surrounded by an air filled cushion thing, in a hard cardboard box. (Assuming what I got was the “air pockets” it’s a plastic sleeve made of many pressurized sections that completely encloses the drive; definitely adequate IMO. I can dig up a pic if you want).

On my phone the site is very stuttery when scrolling. Could be a problem on my end but maybe do some profiling to see if it’s using a lot of resources and test it on lower end devices?

You could make /tmp a ramdisk which probably has some speed benefits.

I think I’m a bit spoiled with my 144 Hz monitor; anything below maybe 120 FPS starts to bug me. Thankfully my PC is pretty powerful and I don’t really play graphics-heavy games (mostly just Minecraft) so my framerate is usually quite stable.

Yeah that got automatically enabled on my phone after an update… Guess how I found out?